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29 May 2019

11:53 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ

Florian Walsh wrote:
> So here is my implementation. It is based on this thesis https://kluedo.ub.uni-kl.de/files/44... Anna Maria Bigatti

11:43 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ

So here is my implementation. It is based on this thesis https://kluedo.ub.uni-kl.de/files/4457/phd.pdf by A. Popescu... Florian Walsh

11:28 Feature #1289: assert-function for cocoa5

May I ask why you want to have assertions which can be globally enabled/disabled?
[I know that this is what we do in... John Abbott

11:03 Feature #1289: assert-function for cocoa5

Thank you, it works flawlessly (with the C++ impl).
However, I think it would be better it there would be some kind ... Julian Danner

28 May 2019

10:38 Feature #1289: assert-function for cocoa5

Here is a potential impl:... John Abbott

10:32 Feature #1289: assert-function for cocoa5

Would someone like to post a couple of hypothetical examples of how you might like to use this feature (so that we ca... John Abbott

27 May 2019

21:17 Bug #1291 (New): LinearSimplify: somtimes not optimal

Sometimes @LinearSimplify@ could produce a simpler result:... John Abbott

14:35 Feature #1290 (Resolved): NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?

I have modified the fn @evalArgAsListOfSymbols@ so that it accepts records with just a @head@ field and no @indices@ ... John Abbott

13:51 Feature #1290: NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?

John Abbott wrote:
> The manual page for @NewPolyRing@ could be improved (and made shorter).
> I find the discussio... Anna Maria Bigatti

13:49 Feature #1290: NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?

I agree: ok for treating "no indices" as "empty indices". Anna Maria Bigatti

13:26 Feature #1290: NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?

The manual page for @NewPolyRing@ could be improved (and made shorter).
I find the discussion about @::=@ to be an u... John Abbott

13:21 Feature #1290 (Closed): NewPolyRing: allow symbols with just head and no indices?

It seems superfluous to have to specify an empty list of indices if one wants no indices; should we allow the @indice... John Abbott

14:08 Feature #1289 (In Progress): assert-function for cocoa5

True. In fact, most of tests in @src/CoCoA-5/tests@ contain this function (which does a few more things)... Anna Maria Bigatti

13:19 Feature #1289 (Closed): assert-function for cocoa5

For debugging purposes an 'assert'-function comparable to COCOA_ASSERT (from CoCoALib) would be useful.
(One can a... Julian Danner

24 May 2019

17:43 Bug #1288: len for RINGELEM ?!?

The source code for the function @len@ is in file @BuiltinFunctions-CoCoALib.C@ around line 100.
The code recognis... John Abbott

16:25 Bug #1288: len for RINGELEM ?!?

The manual entry for @len@ looks a bit strange, and is hard to read. It says the fn signature is... John Abbott

16:22 Bug #1288 (Closed): len for RINGELEM ?!?

I was surprised to discover that @len@ can be applied to a @RINGELEM@.... John Abbott

04:18 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ

We also wrote a prototype implementation of GBasis over ZZ. In particular we focused on minimal strong GBasis. Maybe ... Elisa Palezzato

23 May 2019

15:13 Support #1287 (In Progress): Better err mesg for easy typo in ring definition

The relevant source code is in @Parser.C@ around line 360 in the function @parseUseStatement@.
I think it may be ... John Abbott

12:16 Support #1287 (Closed): Better err mesg for easy typo in ring definition

Consider this excerpt:... John Abbott

11:53 Feature #1285: New Fn: make a homogeneous list of ringelem

What exactly should the function do? What should it be called?
* *(A)* simplest is to accept @RINGELEM@ and @INT@... John Abbott

11:30 Feature #1285 (New): New Fn: make a homogeneous list of ringelem

Proposal: create a new function which takes a ring and a list, and returns a list of RINGELEM belonging to the speci... John Abbott

11:48 Bug #1286: Website: trouble with the world map

I'm very unhappy about the CPU "burning" (it might well be a Google revenge tactic).
Also after visiting the page ... John Abbott

11:46 Bug #1286 (Closed): Website: trouble with the world map

The world map showing where visitors to the CoCoA website come from causes trouble in "private mode" in Firefox:
* t... John Abbott

11:23 Design #1120: Web site

Should we close this? Ater all 5.2.4 has been released.
What about the problem with "forever loading"?
John Abbott

11:17 Feature #1272: Groebner Bases over ZZ

Florian Walsh (Passau) has an prototype implementation of GBasis over ZZ, currently as a package in CoCoA-5. He is w... John Abbott

22 May 2019

22:05 Slug #1284 (Resolved): CartesianProductList: too slow

I suspect that the main problem is that @append@ is terribly slow -- I'm pretty sure it makes needless copies.
Her... John Abbott

16:30 Slug #1284: CartesianProductList: too slow

@CartesianProductList@ is defined in @list.cpkg5@
Ange reported that @CartesianProductList@ is slow; maybe I had a... John Abbott

16:18 Slug #1284: CartesianProductList: too slow

The examples above are not tiny, but also not so large. The resulting lists contained 32768 elements, and each eleme... John Abbott

16:15 Slug #1284 (Closed): CartesianProductList: too slow

Cartesian product operator is much faster than @CartesianProductList@.
Example:... John Abbott

11 May 2019

20:47 Support #1006: External dependencies for building

I have just tried building CoCoA-5 on my old MacBook, and it failed because java is not installed.
* it is annoyin... John Abbott

30 Apr 2019

10:35 Bug #1273: NewPolyRing and SymbolRange together make a crash

I must get my CVS access sorted out, so I can check in.
John Abbott